The only thing people can look forward to is potential price shuffling as amd sorts into nvidia's midrange offerings. There really hasn't been much performance increase per dollar in the $100-$125 range since gtx 460 bottomed out in price.

I'm with ST on this one. It is nice to not have a 12 month refresh (aka rebranding) on current models, and instead wait for new architectures. Let me be the first to say that 18-24 month product cycles are not a bad thing!

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I'm with ST on this one. It is nice to not have a 12 month refresh (aka rebranding) on current models, and instead wait for new architectures. Let me be the first to say that 18-24 month product cycles are not a bad thing!

They've been doing rebranding on their mobile chips to sync up with product cycles of laptop OEMs who want to update the GPU specs at the same time as everything else, but their standalone GPUs seem more resistant to this.